Noon
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I've been there in thought, and I moved on.
I understand where you're coming from, but I don't want to understand feelings that don't serve me well.
I have no fears of someone permanently robbing me of my joy because I've always found the exit door and escaped. What can man do to me?
In order for me to thrive in an environment, there must be respect. I can dislike the way people treat me and treat themselves even and still survive, but if people abuse me or themselves to a point where I can no longer filter out the abuse, then I prefer to remove myself from them.
Thanks for all your input
I know the importance of a clear mind - that high-stress thinking tends to sink into self-preservation mode, and when I'm there, I can't think beyond bare essentials. Kind of like bandwidth poverty with a different cause. Even in the case of a non faith-based religion I think the carrying principle has to be trust; trust in a deity, or trust in a grand design, or trust in the good in the world and your basic safety within it. I'm trying to salvage my trust in the form of the latter here - the shaken trust in this case is events-based, but I'm considering it might also be merging with that bare essentials self-preservation mode - and while doing so also reassure myself I don't need to sacrifice my ideals either to "survive" or to feel better about it should I momentarily not.